On Taking a Holiday.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13349, 27 July 1907, Page 4 (Supplement)

On Taking a Holiday.

Mr. Edison's Advice. Mr Thomas A. Edison, the great electrician, has been asked for his opinion as to the best way of taking a holiday. As to himself, lie said lie was-never tired, and therefore did not feel the need of a, vacation. Ho admitted .that there were others who were not in the same happy position, but he doubted wESther-'the ui cases did them any real good. " The majority of wage earners," he said, "do not make '■ up their minds where they are going until the last minute. 'Then they rush off to some summer resort and plunge into the gaieties and frivolities of the placo 'with great zest. "What is the result?" "Why they return to their work more exhausted than ever, and with their vitality, wasted, instead of .strengthened., They are tired and ill-natured for several weebs after they get back, for they realise they have not really had a good' time. It is like the 'dark brown taste of the after." "Well, what would vou advise them to do?" " Well, We will 'first take the clerk. The country is ,tke placo for this young man. Ha should go where he can get away from everything that suggests the city to him.He "should go where ho can have fresh eggs, fresh milk, fresh air,' and fresh scenes. He should get next to Nature and stay there every minute of his limited holidav. "On the other hand, talw the farmer. He should go to a place like New York, whh-e he can sea tha tall buildings and visit place? of interest.- like the Statusof Liberty, Madison Square Garden, and Grant'.--. Tomb. The farmer should also visit Coney Island. He should take in all. the show" pket.ls and , have a lively old time. "More important than all is the vacation of the shop girl and the girl who is compelled to work in the stuffy sewingroom of some factory all day. These plucky young women certainly should give careful. thought how they intend to spend their vacations, for they have need of good health. " Shun summer reports, I say to these young women. Go to the country, take tha rest cure for your tii-pd nerves. Take a stock of light with you and spend your time out in a hammock or lying on the lawn reading. Taka long sun baths. For exercise take walks through the fields and if there is a lake near by go rowing. " Don't under any circumstances go to resorts where you will be kept up late at night dancing •■ .and overtaxing your strength. Get a real; rest. You need to get away from this or you will shorten tlio length of your life. - "Of course, all depends .on the environments land surroundings of every person a* to whai, kind of vacation is most suitable. But there are few who do not need the absolute rest they can get in the country. It i 3 an unfortunate fact that not many of our shop girls do this. They are a splendid class of Americans, fighting with courage the battle to support themselves and their familki', but they are silly when they select summer resorts and seaside places for the holidays. " I would suggest as a vacation for the business man who has been under a constant mental rstrain for a year that he take up some line of sport he is interested in, like golf, baseball, or boxing. Any of these sports will distract his mind from business worry, for in a few minutes a man forgets everything but the sport he i 5 engaged in. " Eveiv business man should have a hobbv. A man who has a hobby to ride is fortunate, for it relieves his mind of worry, ;ind always gives hini needed rest. •' Business men also should get away from thi city. A trip to Europe is good if he will only forget the Stock Market and other interests at home. An ocean trip is healthful and gives needed rest to ! thcGa who know bow to take it. '• To those who are fortunate enough to own automobiles there should be no difficulty in getting an enjoyable, helpful vacation. I like this kind of vacation mvself. - KUiborate dinner* arc a curs:'. Mainbusiness men eat enough fond to supply a regiment. They are clogging up their boilers by doing so and will live to regret it. "Another important rule to observe is this : Get out of bed as soon vn you open vour eyes in the morning. Don'i- lie in bed and wait to see if you cannot go to sleep again. That is a foolish thing to do. I .lump out oE bed and do something—any- ': tiling. lie active ami alert and get your 1 blood into circulation."